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Kenyan Farmers Want Land Open to Hunters

Sunday, April 22, 2007 3:53:51 AM
By CHRIS TOMLINSON

Zebras roam Andrew Enniskillen's Mundui ranch, Monday, Feb. 12, 2007 on the shore of lake Naivasha in Kenya. Enniskillen, a Kenyan, combined land rehabilitation, wildlife conservation and commercial cattle breeding on his ranch. He says the wildlife corridor he provides to a nearby national park is losing him money and the resulting boom in the zebra population is destroying his ranch. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)NAIVASHA, Kenya (AP) - For the farmers of Kenya, life is a constant contest for grass and water between their herds and the wild animals that share the land.

Now they are waging a new struggle, this time against the international animal welfare lobby. Pleading poverty, the farmers want to open their land to wealthy fee-paying hunters. The advocacy groups are firmly opposed.

The standoff has made Kenya the latest and perhaps most dramatic arena for the international debate over hunting and its role in financing conservation.


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